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Show HN: Qdorks.com – Advanced Google search query composer
Hi HN,
qdorks.com is an advanced Google search query composer I have been working on lately. It makes it super easy to write complex Google search queries and save them for later usage.
Main features:
* Query composer with complex grouping, logical and exclusion operators per clause.
* Share your queries with others so they can easily copy and modify the query.
* No need to register; only when you want to save the queries.
* AI support for PRO users.
* More to come...
I am pretty happy with how it works and would love your feedback! Happy to answer any questions. Thank you!
- mistermann 3y agoSome more options between last month and last year would be lovely, one of my main pet peeves about Google search.
- adriaanb 3y agoThere are some options for date-ranges, but haven't implemented this yet. Will dive into it and add something more flexible!
- therein 3y agoThis looks nice, no complaints there. But all of this just for Google to ignore the advanced query parameters and show me something else it thinks I want is unfortunate.
- adriaanb 3y agoIt is not always 100% accurate, but still pretty good after a number of different tries.
- victorbjorklund 3y agoDoesnt seem to work on safari on iOS. Not responsive design and nothing happens when I press search button. Great idea though!
- passwordoops 3y ago[flagged]
- adriaanb 3y agoThe name comes from "Google Dorking", but replaced Google with Q since it's basically query search string dorking :) Nothing to do with the current Q-hype!
- spacebacon 3y agoOperation redefine Q within a reasonable objective reality for the sake of mental health.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- kylecazar 3y agoNeat! I am still not sure exactly how Google's 'Country' filter works.
- adriaanb 3y agoGoogle uses different ways to decide if a webpage belongs to a specific country. Like domain name, search console country setting, server location, language, etc. Not sure if it's always 100% accurate...
- kylecazar 3y agoGotcha.. this makes sense. I was hung up on what they even meant by a website belonging to a particular country (as if we're all patriotically running sites on local servers or something).
- nhggfu 3y agovia the gl=[2 letter country code] url parameter, i believe. (Also useful is the ?pws=0 flag [to remove personalization])
- adriaanb 3y agoI didn't knew about pws and just added it! Thanks. For country, I am using cr and language the cl query param.
- geraldwhen 3y agoGoogle is objectively worse than all other search engines. I don’t know why I would want to search Google more.
- uneekname 3y agoI disagree, Google finds what I'm looking for more frequently than any other search engines I've tried. And I say this as someone who is looking to use Google less!
- gumballindie 3y agoWhat is the alternative? Chat gpt and clones are rather wrong most of the time.
- gerwim 3y agoI use Phind[0]. It's great addition to the regular search engine. [0]: https://phind.com https://phind.com
- Terretta 3y agokagi.com which is subscription instead of advertising so they understand who the customer is and what product they are selling to whom // to be clear, google understands what product they are selling to whom as well -- it's just not search to you
- geraldwhen 3y agoYandex is my go-to for harder to find items, and other than that I use DDG. Google never gives good results.
- adriaanb 3y agoThe idea is to write one query and be able to view results on the major search engines. I have to investigate the supported advanced search feature for each first...
- koolba 3y ago[flagged]
- spacebacon 3y agoBlame viewport meta… I’m sure it’s an easy fix but author probably prefers components in place.
- adaboese 3y agoRelated to this, does anyone a good way to search only for articles? I have a use case that requires that I only surface search results that are articles (news, blog posts, etc) rather than anything else. The best I've gotten to so far is doing queries such as inurl:blog
- adriaanb 3y agoI have added the source operator for you, so you can search in specific news source. Like: https://qdorks.com/q/RW69pYt754wX https://qdorks.com/q/RW69pYt754wX Just add sources and change the keywords to your liking.
- fraXis 3y agoGreat job! Please add/create a colorful favicon to the site so I can save it in my Google "bookmarks bar" without the name. Right now, it looks like this with a dark theme: https://imgur.com/a/SNmzISI https://imgur.com/a/SNmzISI
- erhaetherth 3y agoThe Country select box should allow you to type characters when it's focused. The native <select> will do this out of the box.
- adriaanb 3y agoGood catch! I had a look, and it didn't work because of the flags, moving them after the country names fixed it. Thanks!
- akikoo 3y agoLooks like it's missing the verbatim search? tbs=li:1
- quickthrower2 3y agoIt is a great idea. It feels like a feature missing from Google (and probably impossible for Google to deliver being hampered by material design)
- arshxyz 3y agoGoogle did make something like this: https://www.google.com/advanced_search https://www.google.com/advanced_search It has a lot of options, even allows you to search ONLY the Text/Title/URL and you can filter by usage right (free for personal/commercial use etc) Interestingly it was last updated before material design was a thing. Maybe it's nostalgia but I love the design language of Google had before material injected padding everywhere.
- sa-code 3y agoThat's a good point about padding. In trying to make their UIs "cleaner" they've made content impossible to fit unless you're maximized on a 27" screen (which is presumably how they develop)